Parque Nacional Medanos de Coro

The Médanos de Coro National Park is a national park located in the state of Falcón, in the jurisdiction of the Miranda, Colina and Falcón municipalities in northwestern Venezuela. Its most important area is circumscribed around the isthmus, on the road to the Paraguaná Peninsula on the north side of the city of Santa Ana de Coro. The isthmus comprises a strip 30 km long and 5 km wide. It has an average height of 20 masl (meters above sea level). Its sandy accumulations move in a changing way due to the action of the trade winds that blow from east to west. Los Médanos de Coro was declared a National Park on February 6, 1974, covering an area of ​​91,280 hectares, of which 42,160 are continental lands and 49,120 are marine areas.1

Los Médanos de Coro are sand formations characteristic of the Falcon state relief, this part of the Lara-Falcón system due to its dunes that exceed 8 masl.